Eliza Ann Owens

Female1869–

Brief Life History of Eliza Ann

When Eliza Ann Owens was born in 1869, in Indiana, United States, her father, George Washington Owings, was 20 and her mother, Mary Frances Wilson, was 20. She lived in Turman Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1880.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Owings
1849–1928
Mary Frances Wilson
1849–1924
Eliza Ann Owens
1869–
Flora C Owings
1873–1960
William T Owings
1875–1949
James A Owings
1876–1962
Clara Owings
1883–1970
John Wesley Owings
1885–1955
Charles E Owings
1887–1973
Maudie May Owings
1890–1910

Sources (2)

  • Eliza A Owens in household of George Owens, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Eliza E Owings in household of G W Owings, "United States Census, 1880"

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Siblings (8)

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World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 1

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

Age 1

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

Age 31

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

Welsh: variant of Owen , with post-medieval excrescent English -s.

Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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